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Any great mechanic knows that to get the best results, you need the best products. While you may have some old glue or tape in the cupboard or the toolbox, car glues, adhesives, tapes and sealants are created to high-standards, which mean they won’t damage or destroy the finish on your car. Double-sided acrylate foam adhesive tapes for a wide range of applications are available on the market. They're made of closed-cell acrylate adhesive for demanding material combinations or critical plastics with low surface energy such as PE or PP. These are able to absorb forces well and are therefore permanently resistant to tensile, shear, splitting and peeling forces. They're suitable, for example, for car mirror bonding or for the bonding of mouldings and decorative trim. The highly elastic silicone rubber (RTV/HE) is a quite flowable silicone rubber with very high elasticity and at the same time low viscosity. It is particularly suitable for the production of filigree elastic forms with pronounced undercuts. Fields of application are relief casting moulds or moulds for strongly structured decorative panels or wall elements.
The tape is typically applied during the body in white process. It is run through the automotive paint pre treatment process and then the e coat process. The tape expands and cures in the e coat cure oven to fill and seal small gaps. The tape forms a continuous barrier between similar and dissimilar materials, which minimizes electrical conductivity and helps prevent galvanic interactions. VHB™ Tape permanently adheres one substrate to another and spreads the stress load across the entire length of the joint
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Plastic components are often fixed with the aid of adhesives to prevent them from slipping during further process handling. Acrylate-based adhesives in particular usually adhere very well to many plastics. They have a strengthening and supporting effect for load transfer and stress reduction. Acrylic adhesives, which are also used for permanent bonding, are characterised by short processing times and high strength to many plastics and elastomers. These adhesives achieve, for example, as 2-component adhesives on low-energy plastics such as PC, PMMA, PVC etc., good shear and peel strengths as well as good impact strength under dynamic loads. From the 3M Scotch-Weld series, even acrylic adhesives have been developed in the meantime, which provide good results on difficult to bond plastics with low surface energy without any surface preparation or primer. Our high quality PVC banner hemming tape is used to reinforce the hems to outdoor display banners. Suitable for self piercing eyelets. Double Sided Correx Tape
When selecting an adhesive, one should consider what the bond must be able to withstand and what stresses the component will be exposed to in use. These are the questions about mechanical, dynamic and static loads, the temperature range, the influence of moisture, other chemical substances or UV radiation. At the same time, the list of requirements should include information on the parts to be joined, the production conditions, specifications for occupational safety and environmental protection, information on long-term resistance and quality assurance, as well as the selected test procedures and costs. Mechanical pretreatment by brushing, grinding, sanding or sandblasting - this changes the roughness and the size of the surface area effective for the bond. At the same time, loosely adhering reaction products, polishing and sliding agents and stabilisers are removed. Designed for use with medium and high surface energy materials like metals, polyimides and polycarbonate In contrast, the low-viscosity, hot-crosslinked silicone rubber (RTV/NV) is medium-elastic, has good flowability and low viscosity. It is therefore particularly suitable for the manufacture of elastic wax or relief casting moulds, casting moulds for figures or decorative panels, moulds for casting with epoxy / casting resin, cement, plaster or other flowable materials. Silicones, with their low-energy, extremely repellent surfaces, are considered to be difficult or almost impossible to bond. Among the few adhesive products that show usable results here are, for example, new types of silicone transfer adhesives that, in combination with adhesive tapes, even enable efficient automation of series production processes - for example in the automotive sector. Further information.The flowable, red silicone rubber (RTB/HB) has a high heat resistance and low elasticity. They are used as mould construction material for casting moulds for low-melting metals where high hardness is required.
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